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Add another company to the growing roster of pipelines that are contemplating projects to take Rocky Mountain natural gas eastward. National Fuel Gas Co. says it is seriously exploring the prospect of building a 324-mile pipeline to deliver Rockies gas from Ohio, where the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) will terminate, to the Corning, NY, market.

The decision by ConocoPhillips to pull its membership from the Alaska Oil and Gas Association (AOGA) leaves the lobbying group with its shortest membership roster since the group was formed in 1966.

The decision by ConocoPhillips to pull its membership from the Alaska Oil and Gas Association (AOGA) leaves the lobbying group with its shortest membership roster since the group was formed in 1966.

On top of asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to turn over financial records on the once high-flying Enron Corp., two House panels have fired off letters to Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay and former CFO Andrew S. Fastow seeking mounds of financial information related to the off-balance sheet entities that sparked the free-fall in the energy trader’s stock, and further interviews with key players who may possess critical information about the corporation’s financial collapse.

Retiring House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer(R-TX) last week would neither confirm nor deny whether he wouldaccept the post of Energy Secretary in a Republican administration,if Texas Gov. George W. Bush ultimately is declared the nextpresident.